I want to know whether or not any of the Federal guidelines... have to follow any type of guidelines with reference to those minority requir...
How can the Committee and the Congress as a whole aid in your efforts to implement the Recovery Act?
Mr. Chairman, that bill has been held up somewhere and we have to get that bill to the floor.
So if there is a second round, I would like to stick around and raise these questions.
Congratulations. Please work with my former colleagues. The attorneys general are really taking----
But wouldn't we do better if we could get some type of upfront requirement before that money--whether or not the Federal Government would ha...
Do you have an example of any entity that you know about that might be an example of what is taking place?
What my constituents are going to--how this stimulus money is going to impact the black community...
But right now I am getting all the heat from it. I was getting calls in yesterday about how do we get a piece of the stimulus? I mean, that ...
Now, are you talking about small minority businesses?
if these dollars come into the community, and none of them get into those underserved and minority communities, then there is going to be--h...
Will you be following that piece of it with your authority under the National Governors Association, how they are following up with the mino...
The Federal Government is letting out contracts with contracting agencies to help track these funds...
The reason why Illinois got the money so early is because we already had projects.
If you could let me know what the States' position is going to be for these underserved communities, minority businesses, or the local commu...
I am trying to get at the fraud or abuse of the funds, whether or not that project really was a worthy recovery type of project.
Individuals are going to be a little skeptical now that their identity could be swiped so easily.
I think about the fraud issue and abuse issue, and being a former attorney general of my State, would certainly say that you have to look fo...
